Help The Children Thrive
Parents are very willing to spent now. There’s really a huge market on baby products. Take for example toys itself, parents are often spoil with choice.
The fact is, baby does not need many toys in the early months. Other than a purposeful made mobile, a few rattles and a stuffed animal. There’s no need to buy expensive battery-operated toys, especially for children under the age of three. We should avoid toy that simply does something while the child watches. An ideal toy should be beautifully made that the child can stack, assemble or interact with one way or another. We want to encourage the child to be actively engaged , not a passive observer waiting to be entertained.
For the first few months, a mobile over the child-bed helps to develop the baby’s abilities to explore the world visually. Again, we are not talking about battery operated mobiles, with all the noise and light, it can actually over stimulate the child. It’s just a simple home made mobile that we can changed every two weeks or so.
The first mobile portrays flat, black and white geometric shapes and reflected light from a glass sphere. Subsequently ones are introduced in ordered sequence : 3 octahedron of colored metallic paper, five Styrofoam balls covered with embroidery thread in gradations of the same color and hung in ascending order from darkest to lightest etc
Mobiles are primarily useful to the infant only in the first few months. In the initial weeks, mobiles help develop an infant visual capacities for focus and tracking. After this period, the mobile is hung at the height within the range of the infant’s random movements to encourage the infant to make contact with the mobile on purpose. Eventually the mobile will make the infant discovered the different capacities of her hands.
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